Exquisite Words is back from VCON
This is my favorite paragraph from my favorite Erik Larson book, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. I can see and hear and smell this all so...
View ArticleA taste of BLUE MAGIC… the first review
Here’s a bit from Kirkus, trimmed for spoilers and length: In the unreal, magic (a blue substance called vitagua) is frozen into glaciers and as it melts it trickles back into our world. The process...
View ArticleBuffy Rewatch, BLUE MAGIC countdown
My latest Buffy rewatch, “The Worst Part is the Stains,” can be found on Tor.com. I hope you all are enjoying these. There’s been some passionate discussion of the show in the Tor threads, and I...
View ArticleKlausnered! Blue Magic gets the business…
Actually, this paragraph is most complimentary: The return to Indigo Springs is an exciting and enthralling fantasy that once again looks at the consequences of “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute...
View ArticleSekrit Project Unveiled!
I’m extremely pleased to announce that Jim Frenkel of Tor Books has bought the first three books in my next ecofantasy series. We haven’t quite settled on a title for the series yet, but the first...
View ArticleTake cover! Blue Magic escapes into the wild
It’s out! After all those countdown posts, we may have been lulled into complacency, but my second novel, Blue Magic, is now officially available in bookstores online and in the real world. Blue Magic...
View ArticleBlue Magic Interview and other bits of Wednesday
M.K. Hobson, author of the amazing The Native Star, asks me three questions about Blue Magic. Her questions and my answers are here. If you liked The Native Star or its sequel, The Hidden Goddess, you...
View ArticleNew Blue Review in Strange Horizons
Tori Truslow of the ever-excellent Strange Horizons doesn’t love every word of Blue Magic, but does say this: Besides Juanita, we get a gay male couple, bisexual Astrid, and transgender Ev. Thanks to...
View ArticleWild Things art and random personal stuff
Look! It’s the cover art for my novelette “Wild Things,” which will be out on Tor.com on October 3rd. If you went to any of my BLUE MAGIC readings, this is the story whose beginning you heard; it’s set...
View ArticleFree for the reading from @tordotcom: “Wild Things”
A couple weeks ago I told you all that this novelette, which is set in the same universe as my books INDIGO SPRINGS and BLUE MAGIC, was available for pre-order at the usual big e-retailers. Today it’s...
View ArticleCHS Review at Behind the Lines and Back Again
Once again, I’m unabashedly posting one of my favorite bits, this one by reviewer Molly Wright, who says: I really enjoyed this book, it had a taste of the humor/lightness of a young adult novel with...
View ArticleSale! “Losing Heart Among the Tall” to Tor.com
I am pleased to announce that Christopher Morgan at Tor.com has bought the fourth of The Gales, a story called “Losing Heart Among the Tall,” which tells the story of how Gale Feliachild and Garland...
View ArticleThe Cover of a Pirate
Some of you may have already seen my new Cynthia Sheppard cover on the The Nature of a Pirate Amazon page and/or when I posted it on social media, but here it is again for your delectation. Isn’t it...
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